The Gaotong former staffs steal the core code to change job Nokia to be sentenced for three years
[Matches net news]On January 13 the foreign news dispatch news, the American Gaotong former staffs accepted to steal the business secret indictment, last week is condemned three years surveillance housing, fine 5000 US dollars, and carried on 288 hours community services voluntarily. This staff named MichaelRend, leaves job after Gaotong, he has joined Gaotong competitor Nokia.
According to the foreign media, by 2002, Rend has worked for ten years in Gaotong. California federation assistant prosecutor Mitch Dembin said that in February, 2002, Rend requested to consult the Qualcomm partial product the source code file, and proposed the false reason. According to the San Diego federation procuratorial organ, June, 2003 to during October, Rend altogether has downloaded 400,000 documents, has almost covered Gaotong all product lines, including application software Brew. In June, 2002, Rend applied for the position to Gaotong important competitor Nokia, in October he changed job officially to Nokia works.
In Nokia, Rend is the Preminet application software\’s designer, this is one specifically aims at Gaotong Brew software\’s competitive product. The investigating and prosecuting apparatus had not disclosed whether Rend will steal from Gaotong the technology is used in the Nokia product, but indicated that Nokia actively coordinates the investigative action.
